Famous Birthdays for May 3rd

Pre-1600[edit]

• 490 – K'an Joy Chitam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 565)
• 612 – Constantine III, Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
• 1238 – Emilia Bicchieri, Italian saint (d. 1314)
• 1276 – Louis, Count of Évreux, son of King Philip III of France (d. 1319)
• 1415 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1495)
• 1428 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (d. 1495)
• 1446 – Margaret of York (d. 1503)^[11]
• 1461 – Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521)
• 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527)^[12]
• 1479 – Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552)
• 1481 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. 1534)
• 1536 – Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (d. 1603)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1632 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nurse and candidate for sainthood, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (d. 1668)
• 1662 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, designed the Pillnitz Castle (d. 1736)
• 1678 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747)
• 1695 – Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube (d. 1771)
• 1729 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Czech composer (d. 1774)
• 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German playwright and author (d. 1819)
• 1764 – Princess Élisabeth of France (d. 1794)^[13]
• 1768 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (d. 1838)
• 1783 – José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)^[14]
• 1814 – Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)
• 1826 – Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)
• 1844 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, English talent agent and composer (d. 1901)
• 1849 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist and photographer (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• 1854 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (d. 1933)
• 1859 – August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)
• 1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
• 1867 – Andy Bowen, American boxer (d. 1894)
• 1867 – J. T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Emmett Dalton, American criminal (d. 1937)
• 1873 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1945)
• 1874 – François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. (d. 1934)
• 1874 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)^[15]
• 1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1925)
• 1879 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
• 1889 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1889 – Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)
• 1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (d. 1917)
• 1896 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (d. 1990)
• 1897 – William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989)
• 1898 – Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and activist (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)^[16]

1901–present[edit]

• 1902 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Edmund Black, American hammer thrower (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1906 – René Huyghe, French historian and author (d. 1997)
• 1906 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1912 – Virgil Fox, American organist and composer (d. 1980)
• 1912 – May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)
• 1913 – William Inge, American playwright and novelist (d. 1973)
• 1914 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018))^[17]
• 1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor and academic (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Betty Comden, American screenwriter and librettist (d. 2006)
• 1917 – George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016)
• 1918 – Ted Bates, English footballer and manager (d. 2003)
• 1919 – John Cullen Murphy, American soldier and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)
• 1920 – John Lewis, American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (d. 2000)
• 1923 – George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist, conductor, and educator (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Ralph Hall, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2019)
• 1924 – Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver, founded Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Jean Séguy, French sociologist and author (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler and engineer
• 1928 – Dave Dudley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Denise Lor, American singer and actress (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (d. 2014)
• 1930 – David Harrison, English chemist and academic
• 1931 – Vasily Rudenkov, Belarusian hammer thrower (d. 1982)
• 1931 – Sait Maden, Turkish translator, poet, painter and graphic designer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (d. 2017)
• 1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
• 1934 – Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Frankie Valli, American singer and actor
• 1935 – Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company (d. 2021)
• 1937 – Nélida Piñon, Brazilian author and academic
• 1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2017)
• 1938 – Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player (d. 2016)
• 1938 – Napoleon XIV, American singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1939 – Jonathan Harvey, English composer and educator (d. 2012)^[18]
• 1940 – David Koch, American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2019)
• 1940 – Clemens Westerhof, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1941 – Alexander Harley, English general
• 1941 – Edward Malloy, American priest and academic
• 1942 – Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016)
• 1942 – Dave Marash, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1942 – Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho
• 1943 – Yukio Hashi, Japanese singer and actor
• 1943 – Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho
• 1943 – Vicente Saldivar, Mexican boxer (d. 1985)
• 1944 – Peter Doyle, English bishop
• 1944 – Pete Staples, English bass player
• 1945 – Jörg Drehmel, German triple jumper and coach
• 1945 – Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1946 – Norm Chow, American football player and coach
• 1946 – Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
• 1946 – Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster
• 1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
• 1948 – Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic and geographer (d. 2008)
• 1948 – Chris Mulkey, American actor
• 1949 – Liam Donaldson, English physician and academic
• 1949 – Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, English academic and politician
• 1949 – Ron Wyden, American academic and politician
• 1950 – Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Dag Arnesen, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1951 – Alan Clayson, English singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1951 – Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 – Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
• 1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian author and publicist
• 1952 – Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and politician
• 1952 – Caitlin Clarke, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1952 – Joseph W. Tobin, American cardinal
• 1953 – Bruce Hall, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1953 – Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1954 – Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1955 – Stephen D. M. Brown, British geneticist
• 1955 – Colin Deans, Scottish rugby player
• 1955 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2004)
• 1955 – Seishirō Nishida, Japanese actor
• 1956 – Marc Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Alain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Bill Sienkiewicz, American author and illustrator
• 1958 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster
• 1959 – David Ball, English keyboard player and producer
• 1959 – Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
• 1959 – Ben Elton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English sprinter and educator
• 1961 – Steve McClaren, English footballer and manager
• 1961 – David Vitter, American lawyer and politician^[19]
• 1961 – Leyla Zana, Kurdish activist and politician
• 1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
• 1963 – Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 – Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic
• 1964 – Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter
• 1964 – Ron Hextall, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1965 – Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch
• 1965 – Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
• 1965 – John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1965 – Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
• 1966 – Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
• 1966 – Frank Dietrich, German politician (d. 2011)
• 1967 – Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
• 1967 – Kenneth Joel Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
• 1968 – Viliami Ofahengaue, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1971 – Douglas Carswell, British politician, the first elected MP for the UK Independence Party^[20]
• 1972 – Steve Barclay, English lawyer and politician
• 1973 – Jamie Baulch, Welsh sprinter and television host
• 1975 – Willie Geist, American television journalist and host
• 1976 – Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
• 1976 – Brad Scott, Australian footballer and coach
• 1976 – Chris Scott, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 – Eric Church, American country music singer-songwriter^[21]
• 1977 – Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 – Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
• 1977 – Ben Olsen, American soccer player and coach
• 1978 – Christian Annan, Ghanaian-Hong Kong footballer
• 1978 – Paul Banks, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Dai Tamesue, Japanese hurdler
• 1978 – Lawrence Tynes, American football player
• 1979 – Steve Mack, American wrestler
• 1979 – Anastasiya Shvedova, Belarusian pole vaulter
• 1980 – Zuzana Ondrášková, Czech tennis player
• 1982 – Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player
• 1982 – Nick Stavinoha, American baseball player
• 1983 – Joseph Addai, American football player
• 1983 – Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
• 1983 – Jérôme Clavier, French pole vaulter
• 1983 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1984 – Jacqui Dunn, Australian artistic gymnast^[22]
• 1985 – Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Kadri Lehtla, Estonian biathlete
• 1985 – Miko Mälberg, Estonian swimmer
• 1986 – Moon Byung-woo, South Korean footballer
• 1987 – Lina Grinčikaitė, Lithuanian sprinter
• 1987 – Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress^[23]
• 1988 – Ben Revere, American baseball player
• 1988 – Paddy Holohan, Irish mixed martial artist
• 1989 – Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 – Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer^[24]
• 1990 – Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik, Romanian tennis player^[25]
• 1990 – Brooks Koepka, American golfer^[26]
• 1990 – James Pattinson, Australian cricketer^[27][28]
• 1991 – Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 – Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (d. 2016)
• 1996 – Mary Cain, American runner^[29]
• 1996 – Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player^[30]
• 1996 – Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player^[31]
• 1997 – Desiigner, American rapper^[32]
• 1997 – Dwayne Haskins, American football player (d. 2022)^[33]
• 1997 – Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player^[34]
• 2003 – Elsa Jacquemot, French tennis player^[35]